• Job Description

  Req#: 103341

  End Date

  Tuesday 06 February 2024

  Salary Range

  £66,861 - £100,292

  
  

  We support agile working – click here for more information on agile working options.

  Agile Working Options

  Hybrid Working

  Job Description Summary

  Lead Software Engineer within Client Data & Analytics Platform.

  Job Description

  Lead Software Engineer

  Lloyds Banking Group

  Location: Bristol. Hybrid working arrangements, (currently at least 2 days per week in office)

  Salary & Benefits: £66,861 - £74,290 base salary, plus competitive benefits package including 15% employer pension contribution, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays, access to share scheme and staff discounts.

  We also offer flexible working hours, agile working practices flexibility to suit your lifestyle and ensure a good work-life balance.

  Our team

  They say data is the new oil, and as the UK’s largest retail, commercial and digital bank, we certainly have a lot of data! Our Data Propositions Lab has been created to transform this data into valuable client propositions – enabling businesses to grow based off genuine data-driven intelligence.

  This is where you come in… there is an excellent opportunity for a driven candidate to join us as a Lead Software Engineer in one of our cross-disciplinary feature teams. As an expert member of our wider Engineering team, we expect that you to demonstrate and apply outstanding software engineering practices and skills, also including mentoring junior team members.

  Lloyds Banking Group?

  Lloyds Banking Group is on a mission to build the bank of the future, and we need your help to do it!

  Continuing our extensive transformation programme, we're redefining what a bank is from the inside out. Our technology, our culture, and our mind-set is changing to craft a true engineering-led organization.
  

  What you’ll be involved in:

  • Writing modular, well tested code that remain easy to maintain as the codebase and business continues to scale.
  • Ensuring software is built in a way which is consistent with - and exploits where possible - the collective frameworks, patterns and practices that exist across the wider Engineering community.
  • Understand and apply industry standard processes, foster knowledge sharing to provide solutions for complex business problems where no precedent may exist and ensure implementation of solutions where appropriate.
  • Continuous focus on delivering business value through sound engineering methods and principles.
  • Utilise expertise to assess feasibility of solutions from a range of software engineering colleagues within the team.
  • Provide consultancy when triaging live production service issues and ensuring they are suitably resolved.
  • On occasion there will be an expectation to support out of hours regression testing.

  Essential skills and experience:

  • A “can-do” demeanor, capability of bootstrapping projects and ability to optimally work with multi-disciplinary, internal, and external distributed teams across the project lifecycle.
  • Deep understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Typescript, and adaptable web design in addition to knowledge of RESTful APIs and web services.
  • Technical background with experience of Programming Languages including JavaScript, Java, SQL/noSQL, Python, etc..
  • Strong professional experience with React or similar and state management libraries (redux, react-query).
  • Practical experience working on Node.js microservices.
  • Able to utilise source code repositories and change management tools, i.e. Git.
  • Strong understanding of Single Page Application development.
  • Knowledge of agile development practices and test automation (Unit/Integration/E2E testing).
  • Experience with build processes and release automation (Azure Pipelines and Azure DevOps).
  • Strong knowledge of the entire software development life-cycle from inception, through build to production.
  • Confidence to express own opinions and be pragmatic about modifying them when appropriate.
  • Excellent team working and communication skills.

  Why else would you want to work with us?

  Whatever your aspirations, you can expect excellent benefits, personal development, and a career that’s enriching and full of opportunity.

  We'll provide you with a diverse, energising, and informal environment that takes a strong focus on equal opportunity and supports career progression on all levels.

  Enhancing your personal and professional development is something that is very important to us, so we'll work with you to make a positive difference to the overall teams' mission. We want you to learn, grow & develop to become the best possible version of yourself.

  We'll ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

  Our approach to inclusion and diversity means that we all can make a real difference, together!

  Our continued dedication to helping Britain prosper means that as a colleague you can make a difference to customers, businesses, and communities.

  Together we have a key role to play in shaping the bank of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll continue to have opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

  We're focused on creating a values-led culture, and our approach to inclusion and diversity means that we all can make a real difference, together.

  At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

  We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.

  We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.

• About the company

  For over 250 years we’ve been making a difference to the lives of customers, businesses and communities. Today, we're still driven by our purpose of helping Britain prosper. We're part of an ever-changing industry and are currently on a journey to shape the financial services of the future, whilst supporting our customers’ changing needs. The scale and reach of our Group means we can offer a broad range of opportunities to learn, grow and develop. Our values-led culture and approach to inclusion and diversity means we can all make a real difference together.

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